The Origin of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained from Historical Testimony and Circumstantial Evidence...three Volumes...

A.J. Valpy, 1816

On the origination of Romance from old mythologic Idolatry	lviii

BOOK I	1

3 Or all nations were once assembled together in a single place	3

Intercommunion of character between the Earth and the Moon	19

Sabianism united to Demonolatry	31

The high antiquity of the fable of the four ages may be gathered from	32

Parallel traditions of the Iroquois	38

From Demonolatry and Sabianism united sprang Materialism which	40

Respecting the general mode of computing time by weeks	234

Chinese cosmogony	246

The demiurgic triads of the Orphic and Platonic systems	263

BOOK II	279

The general aspect of the earth having experienced no alteration from	290

An inquiry into the real scite of Paradise	297

Respecting the changes experienced by these rivers in their courses	306

CHAPTER II	314

Certain peculiarities in the several characters of the Messiah and the great	61

It is also confirmed by profane history	78

Though pagan Idolatry was fundamentally the same in every part	86

A view of the mode in which Idolatry may be supposed to have originated	99

CHAPTER II	111

1	144

Egyptian statement of the doctrine 120	149

Remarks on the sacred books	152

The preceding remarks will account for a curious local variety in	159

Respecting the Materialism of the great god and goddess of	161

The pantheistic great mother	169

Respecting the mundane and arkite egg	175

The egg is often associated with other kindred symbols	187

The egg of the Phenix was really the sacred symbolical egg	199

Heathen Cosmogonies	201

Egyptian cosmogony	228

Gothic or Scythian cosmogony 213	231

Respecting the sacred books	319

ARARAT coincides geographically with the antediluvian Paradise	320

Otaheitean Ooro and triad	323

Parallel fables respecting mountains which take their name from Idavratta	339

Buddha of CochinChina Tonquin Japan and Tartary	348

Parnassus whether Indian or Greek Atlas Snowdon and CaderIdris	351

Respecting the connection of Paradise and Ararat with conse	357

The Paradisiacal islands are the classical Elysium	365

Mystical intercommunion of the Earth the Ark and Hades as exemplified	374

symbolical Moon	378

Peculiar notions entertained of the Moon	384

CHAPTER V	392

this theory	400

The worship of the lion	411

The origination of the symbols of the bull the lion and the engle must	419

Each sacrifice shadowed out the future sacrifice of the Messiah	488

Speculations of some of the ancient philosophers respecting the fall	495

כותרת	The Origin of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained from Historical Testimony and Circumstantial Evidence...three Volumes... כרך 1 מתוך The Origin of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained from Historical Testimony and Circumstantial Evidence...three Volumes, F., C. and J. Rivington (Firm)
מאת	George Stanley Faber
תורמים	R. and R. Gilbert, F., C. and J. Rivington (Firm)
הוצאה	A.J. Valpy, 1816
מקור מאת	הספרייה הציבורית של ניו-יורק
דיגיטלי	1 דצמבר 2005

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